Car Parking UK: Five minute rule prevents drivers being fined if they haven’t paid parking within 5 minutes

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Now, new rules have come into force across the UK which means drivers using private car parks will no longer be penalised if they take more than five minutes to pay. This new change is being introduced in order to protect motorists who may see a delay when making a payment at car parks.

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00:00The fact that people feel they've been victims of rogue parking companies, not all of them

00:08are I accept, but nonetheless there are those that go around with a positive incentive to

00:13get as many people as possible because quite clearly it's about fines which of course goes

00:17into their coffers. It's not a new problem, this has been around for a quarter of a century

00:23or longer.

00:24The new five minute rule in private car parks applies a safeguard which is monitored by

00:28ANPR or CCTV cameras in order to ensure drivers who face difficulties paying for parking in

00:33a short time frame aren't treated unfairly. This comes following several reports of drivers

00:38who were charged hefty fines for taking longer than five minutes to pay for parking, with

00:43one motorist being charged nearly £2,000.

00:47And the reality is that these days when you go into car parks or wherever you get done

00:52as it were, you have to find either the money, but of course it's not money anymore, it's

00:58And of course for older people that's also a big problem in terms of getting on to your

01:02phone and doing quite complicated things which may be a bit of an issue.

01:08The fact that there's a bit of a clamp down will be welcomed by many motorists who feel,

01:12as I say, I use that word very deliberately, victimised. Wherever we go we seem to get

01:18sort of done for parking. Free parking seems to be now becoming a bit of a privilege.

01:24So yeah, for sure, more regulation is good, although of course I do accept that there

01:30is an issue if you have private parking, or private land rather, you don't want everyone

01:35parking on there because of course that can also become a problem. So it's a question

01:38of people parking more responsibly, but also the motorists expecting that they get a bit

01:45of respect from the companies that own the land as well.

01:50As a police officer in this country, I've got enough problems dealing with a wide scope

01:55of crime and parking problems are another sort of burden.

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